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Belmary Pagan Galarza, a senior in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES), is one of 12 students nationwide who has been tapped to serve as a National Teach Ag Ambassador for 2018-19.

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A siren test will be conducted at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 30. This is a university-wide siren test, conducted by the university's emergency management team for the purpose of system maintenance. The test will last approximately 10 minutes.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s joint social work program with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will now include a Ph.D. degree in addition to the existing master’s degree. The UNC System Board of Governors approved the request and expansion at its meeting today.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (May 23, 2018) – The STEM Early College at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has earned prominent national recognition in two different evaluations of school quality and character across the country.

On Sunday, May 20, 2018, the senior group of Sowell, Ordonez, Rivera, Hunt and McAlister along with Hall and the rest of the Aggies baseball program won the 2018 MEAC championship with a 12-9 win over their longtime nemesis in the tournament, the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats.

North Carolina A&T baseball added to the championship collection. The best season in North Carolina A&T Athletics history since joining the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 1971 apparently still has a lot of steam left. N.C. A&T baseball scored a bunch of runs en route to the MEAC Southern Division regular-season title thanks to a 25-15 defeat of Florida A&M Saturday at Moore-Kittles Field.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University professor and associate dean of the College of Science and Technology, Clay Gloster Jr., Ph.D., has been appointed interim vice provost for Research, Graduate Programs and Extended Learning and dean of the Graduate College.

On Saturday, May 12, 2018, an estimated 1,344 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students will be awarded degrees across many different disciplines. In total, the university will award approximately 2,106 degrees for the 2017-18 academic year.

Farmers, landowners and others interested in learning how to grow bamboo for profit are encouraged to attend an upcoming demonstration at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Farm.

The North Carolina A&T men’s track and field team led Bethune-Cookman by only one point going into the final event of the 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at N.C. A&T’s Irwin Belk Track on Saturday. That last event was the 4x400 meter relay.

To close out the first Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, the committee has called on acclaimed poet and children’s author Nikki Giovanni to deliver the keynote message in Harrison Auditorium at North Carolina A&T State University.

The College of Science and Technology (CoST) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation under the Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM).

A team of seven North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students traveled to Van Nuys, Calif., recently to compete at the SAE International Aero Design West competition. They returned home the best team in the country.

Points of Pride

Largest HBCU

N.C. A&T is the largest public HBCU in the nation

Engineering

N.C. A&T is the No. 1 producer of engineering degrees on the undergraduate level awarded to African Americans.

Admired CEO

Chancellor Harold Martin Sr. is named among the Triad’s Most Admired CEOs by the Triad Business Journal.

Academic Excellence

The university’s Center for Academic Studies in Identify Science is the first and only National Intelligence Science and Technology CASIS in the United States.

Higher Research Activity

N.C. A&T is classified as an R2: Doctoral University of Higher Research Activity by the prestigious Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Teaching / Research

N.C. A&T is the highest-ranked public school for combining research and teaching by the Wall Street Journal.

Engineering Professor and Student

N.C. A&T is an inaugural and pioneering tenant of the innovative Union Square Partnership for healthcare training.